The legacy media got it wrong again!
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Summary
Last week, we witnessed the stupidest scandal in Canadian history. The legacy media invented a fake news narrative about Pierre Polyev, which he easily, correctly, and firmly debunked. Now, in response, the legacy media lost their minds. They called Polyev a liar and a bully, and predicted that he was about to plummet in the polls. Well, the latest polls are in, and surprise, surprise, the media got it wrong again.
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Last week, we witnessed the stupidest scandal in Canadian history.
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The legacy media invented a fake news narrative about Pierre Polyev,
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which he easily, correctly, and firmly debunked.
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Now in response, the legacy media lost their minds.
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They called Polyev a liar and a bully and predicted that he was about to plummet in the polls.
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Well, the latest polls are in, and surprise, surprise, the legacy media got it wrong again.
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It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.
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So last week on Fake News Friday, I broke down what I believe to be one of the stupidest,
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if not the stupidest, media scandals in Canadian history.
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So according to the legacy media, basically every single journalist in the legacy media,
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they all decided that opposition leader Pierre Polyev had done something egregious.
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So what did he do? Did he waste a billion dollars on some green scheme?
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Did he give away multi-million dollar contracts to his friends,
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who were also paying his family members to give speeches?
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Did he pressure his attorney general to quit because she refused to give a sweetheart deal
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Did he go on vacation to a billionaire's private island
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and then turn around and give government handouts to that billionaire's organization?
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Or did he parade around in racist blackface for much of his 20s and early 30s?
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Okay, you're on to me. Those were all obviously Justin Trudeau.
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No, no, according to the legacy media, Polyev's far worse crimes were, and this is accurate,
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pointing that out to a CP reporter who was interrogating him with gotcha questions,
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and then defending himself against a attempted smear campaign by the media,
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and finally refusing to bend the knee and apologize to them.
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Yes, that is the scandal that the legacy media reporters are obsessing over,
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and they use that to predict that Polyev was probably going to lose the next election.
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First of all, this is what the exchange looked like between Polyev and the CP reporter.
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Okay, so CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's knowledge,
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did have to make three corrections for falsehoods that they put into a single article.
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I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of World Records
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to see if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections
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for patent falsehoods that they admit they had been made in one single article,
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and now you've made yet another falsehood in your question.
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Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of Canada
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So, yeah, that was, and that's what I said in my remarks.
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Okay, and this is just a handful of the legacy media journalists responding to that interaction.
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just another grotesque day for the Conservative Party,
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adding that it was a truly scummy moment for Pierre Polyev.
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Next, Andrew Coyne of the Globe and Mail saying,
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I don't know who he thinks he's impressing with this campus Tory childishness.
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Tabitha Thuthi from McLean's in the Globe and Mail wrote,
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this entire incident ought to disqualify the man as prime minister.
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he could lose this whole thing yet if he keeps behaving this way.
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Next, on one of our favorite programs to include in Fake News Friday,
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here's a clip from CBC's Power in Politics featuring the Toronto Star's Chantelle Ibert
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just telling us what she really thinks about Pierre Polyev.
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It will be very hard to sell a leader who is turning out to be an intellectual bully,
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especially one who picks on people who are smaller than him
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in the sense that the journalist asking a question is smaller than someone who is the leader of a major party.
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And I don't know what is being said outside Quebec in the other language,
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but I was on a panel today and the words I used associated with Pierre Polyev,
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and they are gaining currency, is that he is someone who will lie whenever it suits its purpose.
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Next, we have the media's favorite TikTok journalist, Rachel Gilmore, saying,
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how do you push back on the spot when Polyev outright lies to your face?
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Okay, so those are just a few of my favorite examples of media losing their minds.
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It started to get a little bit nasty over the weekend.
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posted this picture on social media with the caption,
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They put a very, very rude and unflattering picture of a previous leader of the Conservative Party,
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So, of course, the legacy media wants Andrew Scheer back.
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The whole defining feature of Andrew Scheer was that he let the legacy media define him.
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He actually won the popular vote, but lost the 2019 election in large part because the legacy media went after him ruthlessly.
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They decided that he was some sort of a bigot because he refused to change what Catholics believe about sin and marriage
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So, the legacy media yearns for the day when they could just simply define a Conservative leader
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and a Conservative leader doesn't wish to push back, being a little obvious, saying the quiet part out loud.
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So, first, Jenny Byrne, who's a Conservative operative, wrote the pretty obvious statement.
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Any wonder why the press gallery has been in full attack mode against Pierre since Trudeau's fall update.
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He's giving them another $30,000 per journalist in tax-funded media bailouts.
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The Trudeau government gave media another bailout, gave them another $116 million,
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said that they would pay the newsrooms up to $30,000 per journalist.
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And in response to the exact same week, we see the media attacking Pierre Polyev.
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Instead of going after Trudeau for as many scandals,
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instead of pointing out the fact that Canadians are losing faith in the Prime Minister,
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A little bit of a coincidence, not a good look for these journalists,
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no matter how much they swear up and down that they are completely unreliant and unbiased on the Trudeau government.
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It's a pretty big coincidence that that's all happening at the same time.
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So, back to Althea Raj, who writes for the Toronto Star and is also a commentator,
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They are looking for something to blame for a bad week.
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So, this sort of sounds like a partisan talking point, doesn't it?
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and so they're just trying to look for something to blame.
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That is literally exactly what liberals say all the time.
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The government is providing a labor tax credit to employers.
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One of the organizations who has lobbied the most for this is the National Post and Post Media.
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So, again, just jumping further into liberal spin mode.
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It doesn't just apply to those who support Trudeau.
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Well, everybody in the legacy media, including Post Media, as if that's supposed to somehow let them off the hook.
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Sometimes allows conservative writers like Rex Murphy, Conrad Black, or Barbara Kaye to write in the paper occasionally.
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And that somehow makes it okay for taxpayer money to go to media companies.
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I mean, this is just spin-wrapped and spin-wrapped and spin.
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So, the legacy media, as you can see, are basically in agreement.
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They say that Pierre Polyev had a significant misstep.
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As Althea Raj says, the Conservatives had a very bad week.
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John Ibbotson in the National Post says that Pierre Polyev could lose this thing yet.
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Chantilly Baer of CBC and the Toronto Star says that Canadians are seeing a different side of Polyev, that he's a liar and a bully,
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and basically that this is going to make Canadians turn on Pierre Polyev.
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It just so happens that there was a national poll conducted over the weekend.
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So, that exchange between Pierre Polyev and the CPU Reporter happened on Thursday, November 23rd.
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I did my show Fake News Friday on it last Friday, the 24th.
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And then an abacus poll was conducted on Sunday, November 26th.
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The party who is predicted to have the most seats in the next election is the Conservative Party.
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Again, that's based on polling from November 26th.
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Let's go through what that poll said by region.
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41% Conservative for only 33% Liberal and 18% NDP.
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Well, Justin Trudeau swept with millennial voters to get into office.
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That's more than either the NDP or the Liberals.
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So Pierre Polyev dominating in every single age group.
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Well, the male feminist, Justin Trudeau, is now losing among women and is not close.
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36% of women voting for Polyev, say that they would vote for Polyev, versus 25 for the Libs,
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And 41% of men saying that they will cast their vote for the Conservative.
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One of the biggest markers of who will vote for Conservatives is people who own their own home.
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And that's something that's barely ever talked about.
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But the kind of people who have families, the kind of people who have that kind of responsibility,
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Those are the kind of people who tend to vote for Conservative.
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44% of homeowners are intending to vote for Polyev.
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But again, people who live at home, people who live with family, 35% for Polyev.
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People who rent, 32% for Polyev versus 24 for the Libs.
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By union membership, public sector unions are going for Pierre Polyev.
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Private sector unions are going for Pierre Polyev.
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And no union membership are going for Pierre Polyev.
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Next, I wanted to show you the voting intention by region.
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Notoriously left-wing Liberal Toronto says that they're going for Pierre Polyev.
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We're often told that intelligent, college-educated people go for Liberals.
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College-educated are more likely to be voting for Pierre Polyev.
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41% for college-educated, university-educated 37% to only 28% for the Libs.
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So no matter what demographic you're looking at, Pierre Polyev is dominating.
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Among Liberal strongholds, among former left-wing voters, Pierre Polyev is dominating.
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Final one I wanted to show you here is basically exactly to the point the Legacy Media were talking about last week.
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It says the question was, has your intention of ex-politician changed over the past few weeks?
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So for Justin Trudeau, has your opinion worsened?
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48% of Canadians say yes, our opinion has worsened of Justin Trudeau.
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39% say no change and only 13% say that their opinion has improved.
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We're told that he showed his nasty side and that's going to turn Canadians away from him.
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So I guess 22% of Canadians maybe listen to the Legacy Media or get their opinion through them compared to, again, 48% for Trudeau said that their opinion worsens.
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So it's almost like the Legacy Media is completely wrong.
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Okay, finally, the poll aggregator 338, which just shows the aggregate of all polls taken recently, shows that the Conservatives now hold a solid 41% of the voting projection, which would equate to 208 seats.
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We're talking, folks, we're talking about perhaps the largest sweep in Canadian history.
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We're talking about 1984 levels when Brian Mulroney won 211 seats, which was the most number of seats ever won by a political party.
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Look at the divergence in vote between Liberal and Conservative over the past six months.
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And again, this is telling us everything we need to know about the Legacy Media.
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Why are they scrambling to attack the leader of the opposition?
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Why are they working so hard to change a perception of Justin Trudeau to shift attention away from the prime minister who is engulfed in scandals and who Canadians just aren't very happy with?
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Why are they focusing on Conservative leader Pierre Polyev?
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Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Pierre Polyev doesn't want to bail out the media, that he opposes media bailouts, that he opposes huge taxpayer funding towards the CBC and the newspapers.
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Finally, last poll here, November 29th, three in four Canadians want Justin Trudeau to go.
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Well, Justin Trudeau insists he's going to stay, but the overwhelming majority, 72% of all respondents say Justin Trudeau should go.
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It's a snapshot into what Canadians are thinking about and feeling this week in politics.
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But just keep in mind that this is exactly the opposite direction that the legacy media told you that things were going to go.
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Their perception of Pierre Polyev is completely wrong.
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I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.